Can I count the water in my beer?

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  • kyodi
    kyodi Posts: 376 Member
    If I counted my beer intake with my water intake I would be classified as a water treatment facility. Which also means I'd get government protection and all that jazz.

    SIGN ME UP!!!
  • angela9887
    angela9887 Posts: 26 Member
    Pretty sure you can only count water as water. lol nice try though! have your beer and drink the water! it's the summer. enjoy the extra hydration.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.

    Wrong. Beer is hydrating. Historically, beer/grog was used as the drink of choice for long distance sailing (such as across the ocean) for hundreds of years. Stagnant water will become unsafe to drink but the alcohol in beer keeps it safe to drink essentially permanently. If it wasn't hydrating, all those sailors would have died long before making landfall.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.

    Wrong. Beer is hydrating. Historically, beer/grog was used as the drink of choice for long distance sailing (such as across the ocean) for hundreds of years. Stagnant water will become unsafe to drink but the alcohol in beer keeps it safe to drink essentially permanently. If it wasn't hydrating, all those sailors would have died long before making landfall.

    Science. History. BOOM.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!

    OMG, I thought my husband was the only one that called it liquid bread! But "whole wheat"??? What is the fiber count on that whole wheat beer of yours? :huh:

    *** According to my nutritionist friend it doesn't count as whole grain beer even if you put Benefiber in it.

    OK, whole wheat was a stretch. How about "thin cut white?"
  • Zlink
    Zlink Posts: 17 Member
    Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!

    OMG, I thought my husband was the only one that called it liquid bread! But "whole wheat"??? What is the fiber count on that whole wheat beer of yours? :huh:

    Liquied Beer is quite old term i heard it for the first time in Weird al yankovic song :D quite old song
  • laurie62ann
    laurie62ann Posts: 433 Member
    Watermelon is 98-99% water, so based on your beer logic I should be logging watermelon under "water" and not food!!! :drinker:
  • Amerielle
    Amerielle Posts: 153 Member
    I don't log any water but I say go for it!

    Also:

    2 beers= 16 oz of water! yay
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.

    ADH doesn't stand for anti-diuretic hormone. It stands for alcohol dehydrogenase, which is an enzyme the body uses to metabolize alcohol.
  • coke_bottle
    coke_bottle Posts: 259 Member
    Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!

    LMAO!
  • IAteBethDitto
    IAteBethDitto Posts: 98 Member
    Historically beer was consumed because the water supply was unsafe. So yes, it does hydrate you.

    See this: http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/1074

    It was also a major source of calories for a lot of the population. So calling it liquid bread is actually not too wide of the mark.
  • iplayoutside19
    iplayoutside19 Posts: 2,304 Member
    Well, I ran a 10 mile trail race attached to a 50K once, and the Ultra Runners were drinking beer at aid stations....so obviously your theory is correct.
  • trijoe
    trijoe Posts: 729 Member
    "In wine there is wisdom.
    In beer there is strength.
    In water there is bacteria."

    Not sure who said that, but I've heard it for years. Pretty much sums up Life, if you ask me.

    A TOAST! To the OP!
  • jdm_taco
    jdm_taco Posts: 999 Member
    I mean, it's mostly water, right? So if it's 7% alcohol, that just a little more than 11 oz left. Subtract the barley, malt, and whatever extras might be in there, it's gotta be at least 8 or 9 oz of pure water, right?

    I'm logging it, 1 beer = 8oz of water.


    This blows my mind, I don't see how anyone has problem drinking enough water, let alone feels the need to keep track of it.
  • fooninie
    fooninie Posts: 291 Member
    Awesome post! In for the rumble. lol

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